Looking Glass is an open source application that allows the use of a KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) configured for VGA PCI Pass-through without an attached physical monitor, keyboard or mouse. This is the final step required to move away from dual booting with other operating systems for legacy programs that require high performance graphics.

Lando is a free, open source and Docker driven local development tool for all projects that is fast, easy, powerful, liberating and works on Windows, macOS and Linux.

by Ben Laurie

The modern world doesn’t look like this at all. All the files on a typical computer belong to a non-expert user (for simplicity I am ignoring shared devices — this doesn’t really undermine the argument as I hope you will see). Indeed, the whole computer typically belongs to a single user. Printers do not need accounting and similarly belong to the same user. The enemy is the software that is running on the machine. Users no longer have a good understanding of the software they run. Software is enormously complex and uses all sorts of resources, many distributed over multiple systems, to accomplish their tasks. And frequently their task is only superficially in service of the user.

In short, the old threat model was untrusted tenants, trusted software, unit of protection is files and devices. The new threat model is trusted tenants, untrusted software, unit of protection is individual data items.

Alpine Linux-based Docker images are small, but they can still bloat up quickly. If you're concerned about image size, search for alternatives, like Minideb.

When the Docker revolution started, one argument among many in favor of using containers instead of virtual machines was their size. Container images were supposed to be small.

However, several anti-patterns quickly emerged in the early days of Docker. First, most people wanted to treat containers just like VMs, hence they wanted an SSH server in them, they wanted to run multiple processes in them and they wanted their regular Linux distributions.

This quickly ballooned the size of Docker images that could be pulled from the Docker Hub. Official Ubuntu and CentOS images used to be above 600 MB. Once dependencies and application code got added, it was not rare to see several GB Docker images around.

Systemd è un ambiente avanzato nel quale è possibile confinare programmi e distribuzioni, ideale anche come container per testare applicazioni in fase di sviluppo

Well organized information about volumes in Docker.

How to run docker containers on your desktop.